This work by Corine Eyraud is based on the doctoral thesis that won her the “Prix de la Thèse” in 1993. As its title suggests,…

A number of questions are raised by the increasing power of China, by its military development, and by the impenetrability of its strategic directions—an impenetrability…

On April 1st this year, a US spy plane and a Chinese fighter aircraft collided about sixty-five miles southeast of Hainan Island. The consequences were…

Here is a book which provides much interesting information. Nonetheless, it leaves the reader somewhat perplexed, given the discrepancy between what the author announces as…

This collective work arises out of a conference held in Toronto in May 1997 entitled “Opium in East Asian History”. The book’s editors state in…

This volume consists mainly of contributions from geographers, but contributions have also been made by economists and political scientists. It analyses the changes in attitudes…

The articles in this collection, edited by Samuel P. S. Ho and Y. Y. Kueh, are the work of Chinese members of a Canadian research…

Edmund S.K. Fung’s work examines the thought of liberal Chinese intellectuals and their gradual involvement in political action from 1929 to 1949. He seeks thereby…

This new study is devoted to the relations between the state and the elites in a dozen of districts located in the north-east and the…

Readers of Sherman Cochran will already be familiar with several of China’s major corporations from the first half of the twentieth century. His works in…